Christian Boltanski Heartbeats Archive Analysis

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One relevant example of ongoing archival project is Christian Boltanski’s heartbeats archive. The Heart Archive is a project started by the French artist with the aim to record people’s heartbeats and to collect them in a specific archive where visitors could both listen to them and being encouraged to record their own. The archive, started in 2008 and currently housed on the uninhabited Japanese island of Teshima, is one of many Boltanski’s projects investigating the representation of an absence through the manifestation of a missing subject. (3) Heartbeats, such as clothes or photographs, are tokens that Boltanski uses in its projects as a physical representation of memories and traces that people leave behind once dead. From the start The

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